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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to wonder what prompted her vitriolic Twitter spree this morning.  It seems self destructive.  Yes, on one hand better that we all see her for what she is, but she seemed professionally on the upswing and so foolish for her to lash out in such an ugly way.  [/quote]
I was thinking the same thing. I am a middle-age Black woman. I loved the first iteration of the Roseanne show. There were two episodes in particular that really resonate with me 20 years later... 1) when DJ participated in teasing a Black girl in gym class; Roseanne let him have it, and 2) during the Rodney King riots in LA she and Tom Arnold's character were also looting AND she showed two Black characters from A Different World who weren't looting. I thought that those were very deliberate and thoughtful episodes and I really appreciated those storylines.

Fast forward... I just have a hard time believing that Roseanne was a closet, gross racist all those years. I didn't watch the "new" Roseanne because of everything that she's done and said since the first one went off the air. This whole thing makes me so sad. Valerie Jarrett, by all accounts, is a lovely, accomplished woman who doesn't deserve to be the focal point of her racist rhetoric; no one does. I mean... she literally DID NOT care about all of the people who earn a living working on her show. I'm sad because people like Roseanne just cannot process that the collateral damage does more harm to their ilk than their targets. Valerie Jarrett will be just fine. She will continue to earn a living. The people working on the Roseanne show that may have been out of work for a while or had an opportunity to resurrect a dormant acting career... she set those people back and affected their livelihoods.

Her racist views don't bother me as much as her disregard for how those views impact people that depended on her for a living.

I'm hopeful that this will be a shift that causes people to really rethink how they use their platform.[/quote]

I agree.  I am white, but I actually liked the new reboot.  DJ married a black woman, they were both military.  She had a biracial grand daughter.  Her grandson was gender nonconforming.  The political views of the Metcalf and her and showing that you can have different views, but agree to disagree and still love each other.  The pharmaceutical nightmares the elderly have.  Healthcare issues.  New administration really hasn't change anything for middle America (does it ever no matter who is in office?)  She had Sara and Wanda helping her write these great story lines.  You have the right side watching these story lines.  It had so much potential.   I just can not believe she wanted to be on a show sending out these messages to right wing America and she has been a racist all this time.  I think people say and do stupid things in anger and racism seems to be an easy target to get under someone's skin.  Both sides.  Social media is a hate fest and will continue to be so.  I am glad she had consequences, but I would have much rather her be killed off and let the show go on with Metcalf coming in to help the house.  There are so many good people on that show and behind the scenes that just lost their jobs that did nothing.   It sucks.  [/quote]

Stop normalizing and excusing ignorance/hate.[/quote]

:?: [/quote]

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